He asks her to kill Billy Kaplan (otherwise known as the reality-warping teen cape Wiccan) she, of course, refuses, and even turns up to save Billy from Loki. The first issue opens up with a bang, reintroducing America-previously a member of the Teen Brigade-as an angry, justice-minded, and incredibly powerful young woman meeting Kid Loki for Korean barbecue. Of course, that’s not the only thing that stands out about the title, or even the team. A pack of queer teen superheroes from Marvel? Sign me up, sister.
Specifically, the fact that the last issue has Kate Bishop asking everybody else on the team if she’s the only straight person on the team, only for America Chavez to scoff and point out the way Kate looks at her.
I can practically smell my old GamePro magazines reading it.) Since then, they’ve worked together on Phonogram, the upcoming The Wicked + The Divine, and the short-lived but critically acclaimed and GLAAD Award-winning Young Avengers.Īs someone interested in diversity in pop culture and specifically speculative fiction, I had heard about Young Avengers after its untimely cancellation at the beginning of this year.
(This is, to quote John Mulaney, a very old-fashioned sentence. The two began their working relationship in 2003 at PlayStation Magazine UK on Save Point, a comic about gaming. I don’t mean to imply that Gillen’s writing sparkles less without McKelvie or vice versa, but the narrative and the art walk hand in hand when they’re working together. It’s awesome!) Gillen’s self-contained arc-best described as “a comedy in thirty parts and a tragedy in thirty-one”-is fun, heartwarming, thoughtful, meta, and heartbreaking, all at the same time.Īnd that’s without Gillen working with long-time collaborator Jamie McKelvie. (I’m doing the same thing right now with Sailor Moon. In the digital age, it’s very easy to binge on something in days or weeks, so I really value being able to take my time with a series. I mention this because I really loved getting to follow the story of Kid Loki in weekly installments. I don’t mention this as a bragging point its genius is readily available in trader paperback. Through sheer timing and luck, I have, in my comic book collection, Kieron Gillen’s entire run on Journey Into Mystery in single issues.
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